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The main Sunday Parade begins at 10am at Stephen’s Green, proceeds to the GPO and then ends at Bolton Street at around 3pm (see route map below).

We can’t stress this enough – expect significant road closures tomorrow all around the north and south city centre from the Royal Canal to the Grand Canal. If you’re not planning on visiting the city, avoid the general area.

What’s the story with the trains?

Extra DARTs are running, five times an hour, at maximum train length in advance of the parade, between 8.30am and 10.30am. Heading in the other direction, there’ll be extra DARTs heading out of town from 2.30pm.

Commuter services are also being increased along a similar pattern. Intercity trains are being increased to maximum size.

O’Connell Street’s closed off today, so many north city Dublin Bus routes are operating via Parnell Street, Gardiner Street and surrounding areas instead.

More significant street closures are planned for Sunday, so as a result ten temporary termini will be set up around the city (see map at top of this article). On Monday, we’re back to just O’Connell Street being closed off.

Bus Éireann is running a significantly enhanced timetable tomorrow as the main celebrations take place, while a small number of termini are being relocated. A Saturday timetable will run on Bank Holiday Monday.

“Public transport is strongly advised,” the official advice says. Details of car parks can be found on Parkopedia. The following car parks, however, will be closed to the public on the day: Arnotts; Q- Park Clerys Marlborough Street; Irish Life Abbey Street; Parkrite IFSC; Euro Car Parks Convention Centre; and Euro Car Parks Point Village.

Some of the events this weekend are open to the public, others are open but of limited capacity due to the size of the venue, some – like the Imagining Home concerts – are ticketed, and others – like the event for relatives – are invite-only. (Full details here).

6,000 places around Middle and Lower O’Connell Street have been reserved for invited guests during tomorrow’s parade – including some 5,000 relatives.

Any final advice for a hassle-free day?

You can soak up the atmosphere while watching a relay of the parade events on big screens at the following locations tomorrow:

St Stephen’s Green North/East

Trinity College

King’s Inns

Smithfield

Merrion Square

For an extremely hassle-free day tomorrow, you can simply watch the parade on TV (Brian Dobson and co will be on duty on RTÉ One from 9.30am) and keep up to date with our coverage here at TheJournal.ie.

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